ROBERT PALMER : IN CONCERT

1. Some Like It Hot
2. Happiness
3. Every Kinda People
4. I Didn't Mean To Turn You On
5. Change His Ways
6. Pride
7. Johnny & Mary
8. early in the morning
9. light years
10. You are in my system
11. Looking For The Clues
12. Your Mother Should Have Told You
13. Simply Irresistable
14. Mercy Mercy Me / I want you
15. Addicted To Love

Label : BBC Transciption

Venue : Town & Country Club, London, UK

Recording Date : May 23, 1991

Length : 58:30

Quality : pre-FM recording (A+)

Review : This gig has circulated a lot from bootleg CDs and in a pre-FM version, so why is this superior? Well, the bootleg version is from a tape recording of the FM broadcast - sometimes fine things, but the wear and tear is clear on that version. The similarly widely circulated version from the Westwood One (pre)FM broadcast FM LP has very irksome, loud, shrill shrieking crowds overdubbed over the ends and starts of each song, and excessive treble. So here is the BBC version - from an early BBC transcription CD no less (there weren't many of those printed out at that time to my knowledge) - and it sounds wonderful, as it should. The bass is slightly sludgy as it was on early CD's but this is made up for a lot by the lack of heavy compression that got inflicted on the majority of CD's from the late 1990's onwards. Highlights on this recording are Happiness, Change His Ways, and Pride, played and sung with a real joie de vivre. Very nice version of Johnny and Mary too. The recording can now *breathe*, and I can finally enjoy it - and I hope you will too! I am still looking for the rare Robert Palmer recordings below I read about a long time back...perhaps sharing this slightly elusive recording (at least in this BBC pre-FM form) might help any who have them to share them? Robert Palmer shows still 'out there' which have not turned up on torrent sites, to my knowledge -